Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
In programming, everything we do is a special case of something more general -- and often we know it too quickly.
Alan J. Perlis
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that it's all learned.
Bruce Ediger
Programming can be fun, so can cryptography; however they should not be combined.
Kreitzberg and Shneiderman
Sex is fun, but it probably doesn't solve all your problems.
Larry Wall
Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches: Banality soothes our nerves.
Alan J. Perlis
Complexity has nothing to do with intelligence, simplicity does.
Larry Bossidy
Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter.
Eric Raymond
Sometimes, the elegant implementation is just a function. Not a method. Not a class. Not a framework. Just a function.
John Carmack
In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they're not.
Anonymous
The use of a program to prove the 4-color theorem will not change mathematics - it merely demonstrates that the theorem, a challenge for a century, is probably not important to mathematics.
Alan J. Perlis